The only remotely contemporary mention of Jesus is the Gospels themselves. Mark, the earliest Gospel, was written no earlier than C.E. 70, and probably no later than C.E. 80. Otherwise, we have absolutely no mention of a historical Jesus. Paul, in his relatively undisputed works (those that hardly any scholars think are forgeries: Romans I and II Corinthians and Galatians) mentions a Jesus, but says nothing of when he lived other than some unspecified time in the past. These works of Paul predate the Gospel of Mark by between ten and fifteen years. When Paul does talk of "witnesses" to the resurrection, his "facts" differ significantly from those in the Gospel stories. Also, Paul's understanding of "resurrection" differs significantly from that described in some Gospel stories, his being very much like a phantom (a seed planted, turning out much differently than the original body), whereas the Gospels tend to describe a simple re-animation of the physical body. This brings us to the inaccuracy and mythology of the gospels. "Luke" revising "Matthew" which itself is a revision of "Mark", The later Gospel writers copied from the earlier Gospels, and many times "improved" and exaggerated the image of Jesus.
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